karaspeak

So, now that we know the sex of the baby, we're posed with the challenge of telling people what it is. To be specific, my in-laws. My dad doesn't want to know, and neither does my brother...why, I ask? I don't have the slightest clue, but that's their perrogative, not mine. So anyway, I wanted to come up with a creative way to tell Nate's family what we were having...and what better way to do it than with food? :)

Thanks to my awesome friend Beth, who is creative and artistic, I decided to mimic her idea of telling her parents the baby's sex with cupcakes. Since only my mom wanted to know in my family, I just told her and showed her pictures. Boring, yes, but she's my mom and would love the baby no matter what. So this week I made my cupcakes and decorated them in the lovely tell-tale colors...they'll be delivered today and I'm looking forward to the expressions. Probably more so for the awesome cupcakes than for the message they bear, but still. I had fun. I think I ate more icing than I used and I found a new love for using the "writing tool" full of icing. I actually had to go to Williams-Sonoma to get one since I've always just used my Mom's! Here's to more icing! 

Here's the cupcakes in their delivery box...ready to go!

And Cecelia with her treats. I think she was surprised...as we all were and we wish the whole family could have been there to share in the joy, but it was still fun. She does look like a very happy Grandma-to-be!